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• The Bush administration hoped that Iraq would draw terrorists to one place, making them easier to kill, the so-called flypaper theory. CNN Transcript Jul 12, 2007
• Shadow's head ached and pounded, and his tongue tasted and felt like flypaper. AMERICAN GODS
• It was like trying to shake flypaper.
• That may change, but for now surely we are witnessing the wages of eight years of FISA, the Patriot Act, overseas renditions, Guantanamo, tens of thousands of Islamists 'attrited' in Iraq (cf. the much ridiculed 'flypaper trap' theory), the routing of the Taliban from Afghanistan, Predator attacks in Pakistan, and quiet European intelligence work that would be classified as "shredding the Constitution" if it were done here in the US. Latest Articles
• It's called the flypaper theory in itself a monumentally stupid notion as the attacks in London last year demonstrated and the imperialist hubris behind such an attitude is truly sickening. Wrongs and Responsibilities
• Aura watches the pot of flypaper, which is boiling too vigorously, and lowers the flame. The Lady Matador’s Hotel
• If our troops in Iraq are just "flypaper" -- sitting-duck targets to attract terrorist bombers -- why not try to get the Palestinian suicide bombers to go after them, too? Random feeds from Syndic8.com
• Other mechanisms for trapping prey have similarly descriptive names: snap, suction, lobster pot, flypaper, loop.
• Other mechanisms for trapping prey have similarly descriptive names: snap, suction, lobster pot, flypaper, loop.
• He drew recognition for his images of Harlem, which he reproduced in a 1955 volume called The Sweet Flypaper of Life, a collaboration with poet Langston Hughes.